Reframing Trauma: A Psychospiritual Theory and Theology-M. Jan Holton and Jill L. Snodgrass, eds. Mi Young Choi

Abstract

Reframing Trauma challenges event-based definitions of trauma by proposing a
psychospiritual framework that integrates the contextual, communal, and spiritual
dimensions of suffering and discusses how trauma should be addressed from a
theological perspective. The editors argue that biomedical and diagnostic models fail to
account for the relational, communal, and spiritually embedded nature of trauma,
particularly as is experienced within systems of oppression, ecological disruption, and
historical violence.